Quotes About Rumination

He wants to make us think even when we don't feel like thinking.

ibas a ser ejecutado dentro de una semana, tu mente se centraría exclusivamente en ello, y no podrías pensar en otra cosa.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

They are just thoughts, like anyone has thoughts, that's all.

The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".

This work is part of what is now a huge literature on the often harmful effects of rumination and explicit analysis on people's ability to experience and identify pleasure.

I was raised with an innocence at odds with the experience of my pragmatic Arab ancestors. To be born in these parts is not only to know loss and rumination, but also to savor the endless pleasures of discord.

Certainly one quality which nowadays has been best forgotten—and that is why it will take some time yet for my writings to become readable—is essential in order to practise reading as an art—a quality for the exercise of which it is necessary to be a cow, and under no circumstances a modern man!—rumination.   SILS-MARIA, UPPER ENGADINE, July, 1887.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Sometimes when we don't know the answer, it's time to simply be with the question.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.

It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.

His grin turns into a thoughtful pursing of the lips, and he actually seems to consider my question.

Poley rested his knuckles on his lips, the image of a fighting cock.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

There's a thing I've got i' my head, said Mr. Tulliver at last, in rather a lower tone than usual, as he turned his head and looked steadfastly at his companion.

took time to really ponder

As the neural grooves of self-blame and regret get established, rumination becomes your default mode.

And in fact, psychologists draw a straight line of causation between chronic rumination and chronic depression. Dwelling on the negative and berating yourself is bad for your health, physical and mental. And the longer your mind is consumed with gloomy self-accusations, the worse you will feel.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

Life is but thought.